Happy Easter to all.
Thank you to all admins; aptosid is working great for me.

I've connected a VANTEC NBA-200U USB External Audio Adapter, and connected to it a couple of old PC speakers. And I hoped it would "just work"
Sound continues to be routed through my internal audio card.

I don't find pulseaudio on my aptosid system, so I'm guessing aptosid has a preferred way.

In KDE4 multimedia "sound and video configuration" my adapter is recognized as (USB Sound Device (USB audio). However, it refuses to play the test file through my adapter (but light on my adapter flashes).

The old speakers are functional. Device volume is set at half, and is unmuted.

I'll be grateful for suggestions on how to proceed.This is a very cool device, and I'm impatient to get it working.

Did you try enabling other channels than the master volume in the Kmix mixer?
To enable pulseaudio I think you have to install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio.
apt-cache search pulseaudio, may help you find other relevant packages related to pulseaudio.

kerm

Post subject:Posted: 26.04.2011, 03:58

Joined: 2011-01-03
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ShakaZ:

Thank you for replying.

"Did you try enabling other channels than the master volume in the Kmix mixer?"

From my reading today, I must set both the USB sound device, and the USB adapter, as 0 (default).
There must be a simple way to do that, but I haven't found it yet.
There are so many apps and modules, I'm confused.
Which is why I'd like to know what the aptosid way is to set up as I want to do.

As regards pulseaudio, I don't know if it's necessary to the aptosid way.

What keeps me optimistic is the belief that someone, somewhere, has an extremely simple solution to any IT-vexation I occasionally encounter.

Just because it was easy, I tried my M$-admin. friend's advice: I disabled the sound module in BIOS, and rebooted.

With KDE open, I asked VLC to play a music cd. It protested, and suggested I reinstall a newer (?) edition of VLC. I didn't bother.

I closed VLC and made the same request of juk.
A KDE window opened listing my sound cards, and inviting me to choose the one I wanted as default.
I chose my USB external audio adapter, and clicked OK, and "apply".
The window closed, and juk began to play the cd ... through my USB adapter.

There may be some very minor tweaking remaining, but:
Problem solved !